Sr. Backend Engineer - Integrations & Platform
About The Position
Come join our Platform Team! High velocity, high intensity, high trust, high bar, high impact, and a will to win. If those words resonate deeply with you, this could be your next career move. We're seeking someone who leads with humility, pursues audacious goals, and is motivated by meaningful impact on people and the world. At FutureFit AI, our core mission is to help more people get to better jobs faster and cheaper, with a specific focus on those facing barriers to opportunity. Our work helps resolve the growing issue of economic inequality, ensuring that no one is left behind in the future of work. Our AI-powered platform brings efficiency and insight to workforce development, replacing outdated systems and unlocking human potential at scale. Ready to make an impact? Apply today. Important note: Data shows that men typically apply when meeting 3/10 requirements, while women often wait until it's 10/10. We encourage you to apply if you see a strong (not necessarily perfect) fit. Your Role FutureFit AI is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Integrations & Platform team! You'll play a critical role in building the backbone of our platform. You’ll design smart, scalable backend systems that power complex integrations with government and enterprise partners, eliminate manual operational work, and set our team up to move faster with less friction. Your initial focus will be on our most technically demanding integration: a bidirectional sync system that requires sophisticated error handling, async workflows, and operational automation. You'll build the infrastructure and patterns that not only solve this specific challenge but become the foundation for how we approach integration reliability and operational excellence platform-wide. It's a hands-on, high-impact role where you'll see immediate results — fewer production issues, faster support resolution, and systems that scale confidently — while building expertise that positions you to drive platform initiatives across our growing infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong backend development experience with TypeScript/Node.js and modern AWS services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems patterns: idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, and error handling
- Experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
- Proficiency with at least one database technology (SQL or NoSQL) for production systems
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills using logs, metrics, and tracing
- 5–8+ years in backend, platform, or integration engineering roles with focus on building reliable systems for complex external integrations
- Built and maintained bidirectional sync systems between internal platforms and third-party APIs, handling edge cases like duplicate records, missing data dependencies, and validation failures
- Designed and implemented event-driven architectures using serverless technologies (Lambda, Step Functions) for async workflows at scale
- Integrated with legacy or government systems where API documentation is incomplete and error handling must be defensive
- Worked extensively with both SQL and NoSQL databases — using document databases for state management and SQL for data validation and analytics
- Built operational automation and internal tools that reduced manual support work, enabling non-technical teams to self-serve and resolve issues
- Implemented comprehensive observability for integration pipelines: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting for proactive issue detection
- Worked in environments with strict SLAs, compliance requirements, or high operational load where reliability and correctness are non-negotiable
- Collaborated with customer support and success teams to understand pain points, prioritize fixes, and build solutions that reduce escalations
- Experience with multi-tenant architectures and tenant-specific configurations
Nice To Haves
- GraphQL API design and implementation
- MongoDB or DynamoDB for managing async workflows and state machines
- SQL/data warehouse experience for validation and analytics (Redshift, PostgreSQL)
- Experience with government APIs, legacy enterprise systems, or partners with limited documentation
- Event-driven architecture at scale using serverless patterns
- CloudWatch Logs Insights, New Relic, or similar observability platforms
- Multi-tenant architecture and tenant-specific configuration managements
Benefits
- Work directly with the founding team
- Unlimited PTO
- Health care
- Career Development Budget
- Technology reimbursement
- Flexible schedules built on trust
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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